Only B2B

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of B2B marketing, mastering the art of MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead) lead nurturing is akin to harnessing the wind – it propels your business forward. MQL lead nurturing is a multifaceted journey, a strategic masterpiece, and an essential facet of a successful marketing campaign.

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Jump Ahead What is an MQL? Marketing Strategies That Will Help You Gain More MQLs So, how do you get your MQLs to pick up the pace again and move down the funnel?

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Oktopost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Leads that once flowed through the funnel have now slowed their pace, leaving marketing teams struggling to meet their KPIs. Jump Ahead What is an MQL? Marketing Strategies That Will Help You Gain More MQLs So, how do you get your MQLs to pick up the pace again and move down the funnel?

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads MQL Lead Scoring 62

The Point

AUGUST 25, 2020

Not every Account-Based Marketing (ABM) strategy starts from the same place. For others, it’s identifying a target account list. Filling those gaps will make you better prepared to reap maximum benefit from a fully-deployed ABM strategy. Target Account List. Sales Structure.

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Martech

JANUARY 25, 2022

You’ve worked hard to turn the engagement from your recent marketing campaign into leads. Once your suspects have become prospects who’ve finally reached the scoring threshold, you toss the leads over the proverbial wall for sales to work. Later, you learn that after an initial push, your warm marketing leads have gone cold.

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Heinz Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

By Payal Parikh , Director of Client Engagement at Heinz Marketing. Marketing metrics can be messy. Measuring the marketing contribution has never been easy. With so many tools and tech at your disposal, marketers are finding it even more difficult to measure and what ‘not’ to measure. Some basic benefits to an ABM model.

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Only B2B

APRIL 24, 2024

Among marketers, few topics spark as much debate as the comparison between demand generation and inbound marketing. Conversely, inbound marketing predominantly relies on passive techniques to draw in potential leads. Here are some metrics to consider: High-intent Marketing Qualified Leads (MQLs).

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ABM in Action

MAY 18, 2023

There are some rivalries that are just legendary: The Hatfields and The McCoys, Biggie and Tupac, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates… and in the marketing world, the rivalry is between MQL deniers and apologists. ABM In Action: Let’s just jump right in here — how did this rumor get started that the MQL is dead?

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The Point

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Budgeting season is here again, and demand marketers are not immune. Based on the work we do with our agency’s B2B clients , here’s a basic, funnel-based approach to determining a realistic demand gen budget based on specific revenue targets: 1. We prefer to base budgets on MQLs vs. raw inquiries.

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Only B2B

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Over a long time, the sales and marketing operations in B2B organizations were thought to be discrete. At some point throughout the sales cycle, marketers must transfer over marketing qualified leads (MQLs) to sales teams as sales qualified leads (SQLs). The Sales Funnel.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The disconnect between marketing and sales is an age-old story. Research shows that 90 percent of sales and marketing professionals believe their strategy, processes, content, and culture are not aligned. This has major consequences for both the marketing team and their sales counterparts. “If

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. How do you define a lead?

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The Point

JANUARY 19, 2021

2020 was a year of change for marketers worldwide, much of it not for the best of reasons. Will B2B marketing, and demand generation in particular, revert to “normal” once the pandemic subsides and economic recovery kicks in, or are recent trends destined to become staple tactics in the months and years to come?

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Engagio

JANUARY 12, 2021

In the past five to ten years, B2B CMOs around the world have made great strides in improving marketing analytics. But with the rise of Account-Based Marketing, B2B marketers need new metrics—ABM metrics—to guide how they measure and prove their results. ABM requires account-based metrics.

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markempa

JUNE 13, 2017

So, who should own B2B lead generation: sales, marketing or both? Sales and marketing aren’t doing a great job of executing lead generation because they both believe it’s the others job. Marketing rarely generates a sufficient volume of qualified leads. It’s not because marketing can’t or won’t.

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Martech

MARCH 29, 2022

While Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is a key strategy today, going forward, B2B marketers will take a more holistic view. More of a dance than a race, marketing is evolving to look at the entire lifecycle and how to care for the customer relationship at each phase. First, you walk. Then you run.

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Lead Forensics

MAY 14, 2024

They have become masters at using marketing automation and their digital strategies continue to grow in sophistication. Amazon continues to be a leading light in this field, showing how marketing automation can help turn a company into a slick selling machine. What is marketing automation?

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DiscoverOrg

MARCH 27, 2017

Account-Based Marketing. Account-Based Sales Development. Account-Based Customer Success. Engagio combines all of these strategies into a strategy they call Account-Based Everything (ABE) , which serves as the driving principle behind both their product and how they operate as a company.

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Televerde

AUGUST 16, 2019

Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is all the rage nowadays. You wonder, is ABM worth the hype? After some research, you see lots of companies are finding massive success by executing ABM strategies. Now it’s time to plan outreach, which is where many marketers enter uncharted waters.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? You’re in luck because I have five tactics you can test today targeting those companies you want to get in front of (results may vary)! You’re in luck because I have five tactics you can test today targeting those companies you want to get in front of (results may vary)!

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 2, 2023

Business-to-business (B2B) marketing campaigns come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and it can be difficult to decide which style is best suited to your marketing goals. In this blog post, we’ll be exploring the three most popular B2B marketing campaigns: account-based marketing (ABM), B2B lead gen and demand generation (Demand Gen).

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 4, 2020

There has been an ongoing debate in B2B marketing circles: Is the Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) an antiquated, vanity metric? You can file this argument under similarly counterproductive debates, such as: Inbound vs Outbound and Demand Generation vs Account-based Marketing. How do you define a lead?

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DemandBase

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If you’re like me and are brand new to ABM or even the marketing world in general, it can all seem a bit confusing. These courses break down what ABM is, how it can be useful and ways to implement ABM in your company. So, let me break it down to the key takeaways from my lessons in ABM. Key Gains of ABM Strategy.

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? You’re in luck because I have five tactics you can test today targeting those companies you want to get in front of (results may vary)! You’re in luck because I have five tactics you can test today targeting those companies you want to get in front of (results may vary)!

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Directive Agency

JANUARY 8, 2019

Are you struggling with obtaining marketing-qualified leads? You’re in luck because I have five tactics you can test today targeting those companies you want to get in front of (results may vary)! You’re in luck because I have five tactics you can test today targeting those companies you want to get in front of (results may vary)!

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ViewPoint

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Unfortunately, as a result of this thinking, marketing spends a ton of money generating leads for sales that are never followed-up. Here are 5 things CEOs need to consider in order to fix what is broken: What is the CEO’s role as it relates to marketing and sales? What should I know about Account-Based Marketing?

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6sense

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Making a complex B2B sale always has and always will hinge on being able to pick up on signals. No wonder companies in traditional sectors like security and manufacturing have clung to their traditional ways of marketing and selling as long as possible. The Design of Account-Based Marketing. Smart, right?

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Engagio

JUNE 21, 2017

The B2B lead handoff process is broken. Marketers invest a ton of time and resources to acquire leads using a variety of tactics, from data acquisition to SEO to trade shows to paid ads. Unfortunately, studies show that upwards of 80 percent of leads generated by marketing are neglected or never acted upon by a sales rep.

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B2BMarketing.net

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

On 1 November, 500+ marketing leaders gathered to attend The Global ABM Conference from B2B Marketing. Over 50 speakers lined up to share their expertise on various ABM-related topics from customer insight and innovation in Ai to sales enablement and content creation.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Whether your marketing department is a startup or well established, you should routinely assess which key performance indicators (KPIs) you’re tracking — and if you’re not tracking any, decide where to start. Every marketing team should have specific KPIs that align with their department’s goals and the organization’s goals at large.

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LeanData

JULY 13, 2020

At Ops-Stars 2018, conversations around changing GTM strategies were widespread. That’s why LeanData hosted a dedicated Ops-Stars workshop as well as a recent webinar, “Connecting Data to People Across Any Go-to-Market Model,” to empower operations professionals to put new GTM strategies into action.

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Engagio

OCTOBER 2, 2017

If there was one golden rule to ensure success with Account Based Marketing, it would be this: Silos don’t work. In an account-based world, landing the biggest, highest-value accounts can only be achieved when all revenue-generating disciplines are closely aligned. ABM is a strategic business initiative.

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ANNUITAS

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Many of our clients have been very interested in Account-Based Marketing, and understanding the implications of adjusting their strategies to focus more on targeted accounts rather a demand strategy focused on volume. Is sales not involved in that decision string?

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The Point

MARCH 29, 2017

Earlier this year, I talked to a CMO at a B2B tech company whose sales counterpart was lobbying strongly for the company to adopt Account-Based Marketing (ABM) as part of their demand generation strategy. The lead funnel is obsolete. Inbound marketing doesn’t work, or at best is grossly inefficient.

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PathFactory

MARCH 21, 2024

In fact, 83% of the time, they’ll initiate contact rather than react to any sales outreach. All this to say, it might be time to have another look at you content strategy to ensure your buyers can find what they need, when they need it (and yes, that means not gating your customer case studies!).

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Launch Marketing

MARCH 20, 2024

Marketing is a tried-and-true tactic proven to generate leads and revenue for businesses. Will I achieve business goals with marketing at the forefront? What can effective marketing do for my organization? The truth is that when done properly, marketing works, and we have proof. What Are the Benefits of Marketing?

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Heinz Marketing

MAY 8, 2020

By Stephanie Carrillo , Senior Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing. Most of my digital marketing career has been running campaigns for eCommerce companies. In this setting, we would live and die by analytics and pivoted daily based on what the data was telling us. How to benchmark your marketing channels.

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